Interior View of the Church of St. Peter's in the Vatican
Francesco Panini
1765–1775
- Medium
- Transparent and opaque watercolors with shell gold and pen and black ink, over etching, on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 58 × 88.5 cm (22 7/8 × 34 7/8 in.)
- Genre
- ink and wash
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)paintinkink and washgouachewashprintingoil paint (paint)prints and drawingetchingwatercolorcoating (material)paper (fiber product)water-base paint
About
Son of the renowned painter of interiors Giovanni Paolo Panini, Francesco worked with the etcher Giovanni Volpato to create monumental prints of his father’s painted views of the inside of Saint Peter’s, which he then deftly enhanced with watercolor, and in this case, with gilding.